Arvo Bowen's questions

I have been working on trying to restore data from an array created on a Dell MD3220 PowerVault storage unit. On the phone with Dell and another support group for weeks now and running into brick walls. I was hoping that someone here might be able to have an idea that I could try in hopes of recovering the data. The storage appliance has 24 drive bays identified with a 0 base (so drive 24 is called 23, and drive 1 is called 0).

The unit experienced a power outage and I guess the storage unit going offline before the two servers accessing the data (via SAS cables) did was the cause of the issue. So the DBs that contains the array config located on each controller in the MD3220 (there are two) became corrupt.

• We tried to recover the DBs by replacing the current DB with the latest backup found on the controller itself (a common scenario). That seemed to fail.

• We even went as far as trying to rebuild the database with the files stored on my server (DBM files) that I use to manage the appliance. We had Dell generate a Validator key to use when rebuilding the databases. That seemed to fail as well.

The error I keep seeing that I can't get around is Exception type N3adp6Device24ExtentAllocatedExceptionE message "N3adp6Device24ExtentAllocatedExceptionE"with extent:553 of size:1106 for drive ordinal22.

09/29/21-19:24:37 (tRAID): WARN:  UWManager::initializeNvsramIWLog: IWLog invalidated
09/29/21-19:24:37 (tRAID): NOTE:  UWMgr findIWLogs: Found IW log drive. Devnum 0x10001 tray=0 slot=2 ssd=0 qos=3 controller=0
09/29/21-19:24:37 (tRAID): NOTE:  UWMgr findIWLogs: Found IW log drive. Devnum 0x10002 tray=0 slot=3 ssd=0 qos=3 controller=0
09/29/21-19:24:37 (IWTask): NOTE:  UWMgr: IW logging started
09/29/21-19:24:41 (tRAID): ERROR: CrushDrive::allocateExtent - Exception type N3adp6Device24ExtentAllocatedExceptionE message "N3adp6Device24ExtentAllocatedExceptionE"with extent:553 of size:1106 for drive ordinal22
09/29/21-19:24:41 (tRAID): ERROR: CrushStripe DeSerialization - Couldn't allocate extent! CrushDrive 22 Volume 1 CrushPiece 2 Extent 553
09/29/21-19:24:41 (tRAID): ERROR: Exception during stripe allocation in vdm::CrushStripePersistenceManager::initialize(1)
09/29/21-19:24:41 (tRAID): ERROR: vdm::CrushInvalidCfgMgr DB_CORRUPT detected
09/29/21-19:24:41 (tRAID): NOTE:  lockdownPrimaryDBInvalidWorker: OBB already in pcache, not updating.
09/29/21-19:24:41 (tRAID): WARN:  BackupDatabaseManager:lockdownPrimaryDBInvalid Exception IconSendInfeasibleException Error
09/29/21-19:24:41 (tRAID): WARN:  BDBM:  Client detected Primary DB Corruption. Forcing dualControllerLockdown.
09/29/21-19:24:41 (tRAID): WARN:  Ctl Reboot:
                                Reboot CompID: 0x407
                                Reboot reason: 0x11
                                Reboot reason extra: 0x2
09/29/21-19:24:41 (tRAID): WARN:  Rebooting this Controller now

I'm guessing "ordinal 22" is talking about drive 23 (of 24 drives)? Not sure what it's complaining about though. Is drive 23 bad? Is there a database on all the drives and the DB on drive 23 bad? Is there a way to restore that drives database like copy it from another etc? Is it even talking about drive 23? Any help that anyone can toss at me would have a bunch.

Thanks!!

I'm trying to set up a new Hyper-V cluster to run my virtual environment on. Decided to try out 2019 and currently I have two HOST servers (Dell R620s) connected together using a cat5 cable directly (no switch). Each host has a total of 4 NICs (2x10Gb and 2x1Gb). The issue was really bad on one of the 10Gb NICs so I decided to do the tests on the 1Gb NICs on each server.

I have the other NICs connected to other things in my production environment but was getting mad about the slow speeds across the network so I wanted to do some testing...

HOST1 : 192.168.35.1 ...directly connected to... HOST2 : 192.168.35.2

On host1 I try to send over a large VM and this is the results...

Any idea what I might have configured wrong to make the network speed so bad? I have also disabled VMQ on all NICs just to test things out. Not sure if this is something with 2019 or maybe the NICs etc.

Thanks for any help!

Is it possible to use non-certified hard drives in a Dell MD3220 storage array? I ended up getting 3 new drives that were the EXACT same model number as the existing ones. Then I bought the drive caddies to go with them.

The drives I'm working with:

Manufacturer: TOSHIBA
Product ID: AL13SEB600
Serial number: (varies)
Speed: 10,500 RPM
Current data rate: 6 Gbps
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Physical sector size: 512 bytes
Physical Disk firmware version: (varies)
Date of manufacture: Not Available

Once the new drives arrived I mounted them on the caddies and inserted them into my storage array to see an Incompatible status. They have all the same specs. The only difference is the firmware. Still oblivious as to what was going on I started the standard process of upgrading the firmware. The firmware on the drives I received was 1701 and all my other existing drives were DE09.

During the Upgrade Physical Disk Firmware process...

I end up getting this error...

After looking into it on the web it seems that it's a common practice for vendors like Dell to lock down their software to only support DELL BRANDED hardware! Even though the drives are the exact same drive (same model and everything both made by Toshiba).

Now I'm stuck with these three drives that I only bought because Dell wouldn't sell them to me (I guess they no longer make them). Not to mention the caddies I bought elsewhere. My question is, is it possible to somehow flash the firmware on these drives so that Dell's software/hardware will accept them?

UPDATE 2019.01.24

Just to add if it helps others, I wanted to post where I was able to find the firmware for my drives. Dell does not make it easy to get to. I had to check each version release of the firmware packs to find the firmware I needed for my drive. Suggestion, don't download each one, use the README (they include for each firmware pack) to search for the firmware you are looking for then download the large pack of firmware. Mine happen to be A19 that contained the DE09 firmware I was looking for.

Go to (this page) and note the red boxes...

After clicking on older versions it opens another window showing you the following...

You will need to look at each one to determine what package (in my case A19) that you need to download.

UPDATE 2019.01.29

Well it has been a few days now and my struggle continues. Even with the help of @Freddy's answer I'm still trying to make this a reality.

I have managed to get over a few hurtles but now I'm not able to move forward. I have edited the firmware (DE09.fwh) enough so that it does two important things...

1. It gets past the device ID check to green light my disk. Before, the firmware would check for id 29747 (AL13SEB300) or id 29748 (AL13SEB600) or id 29749 (AL13SEB900). My drive was showing up as id 00000 (AL13SEB600). So I edited the FW to account for the 00000 id. This worked great!
2. It bypasses the minimum required firmware version (because my new drives have version 1701 on them) before it tries to update. So now instead of looking at drives with firmware DE01 and above, it looks for drives with 1701 and above (because version 1701 is lower than DE01).

So after trying many different approaches. I have found that there are really three tools to use to flash the drive's firmware...

1. SASDUPIE.exe
2. The Dell Powervault Modular Disk Storage Manager
3. The Dell SAS Hard Drive Firmware Utility

SASDUPIE.exe

When trying to use SASDUPIE.exe on (*.fwh) files such as DE09.fwh, I get a new error (since I have hacked the firmware) when trying to flash...

The operation failed due to an invalid image file.

and

Error Code: "WriteBuffer: Return code from ProcessLibCommand = 2d."

Dell Powervault Modular Disk Storage Manager

This is the normal way that Dell wants you to update the firmware. It takes firmware packages (*.df) such as Toshiba_AL13SEB600_DE09.df. I thought that I could try to just hack the firmware and use this tool to update the drives. But with this tool it first reads the drives and determines that are in Bypassed or Offline status and make the drives inaccessible. This happens before you can even get to the Download Physical Disk Firmware window. So unfortunately this was a bust.

Dell SAS Hard Drive Firmware Utility

This is a tool that can be downloaded from here. It allows you to create a bootable CD or USB thumb drive. You can then boot the CD/USB up to upgrade the drives in a non windows environment. Unfortunately this would not work for me either. When I booted up my R630 Dell server which has a boot drive that's mirrored (2 x 600GB drives), and a data drive (not currently used) that is running a raid 5 array from 4 drives, and has connections to my MD3220 storage unit of course. That makes a total of 6 drives mounted into the R630 server and then I have one I inserted (then set as a NON-RAID drive) to flash the firmware on. When booting up this utility it seems to only show me 4 drives, and two of those drives are the same drives just from different controllers. I have no clue why it's not showing me all the drives. But this does not seem to be working for me at all.

Today I had a power outage and switches went out. This for some reason caused my cluster to freak out (something to look into later) and one of my VMs did not start back up. After looking into why it would not start up I found that the BIN and VSV file located in the GUID folder for the VM under my CSV in the Virtual Machines folder was just missing! The GUID folder for the VM still exists but the folder is cleaned out and the BIN and VSV files (2 total) are gone!!

Currently, I do not have any snapshots of the VM at this point. It's something I was about to start doing for all my VMs on a scheduled base but have not gotten around to it yet.

What has happened here? Where did they go? Is there any way to get this back?

UPDATE #1

When I try to bring the VM online from the Failover Cluster Manager I get the following error...

Cluster resource 'Virtual Machine SERVER01' of type 'Virtual Machine' in clustered role 'SERVER01' failed. The error code was '0x2' ('The system cannot find the file specified.').

Based on the failure policies for the resource and role, the cluster service may try to bring the resource online on this node or move the group to another node of the cluster and then restart it. Check the resource and group state using Failover Cluster Manager or the Get-ClusterResource Windows PowerShell cmdlet.

UPDATE #2

I also run a Cluster Validation and currently I'm running through the report that has just finished. I'm hoping that will lead me in the right direction but wanted to ask here hoping it might be a simple fix.

UPDATE #3

This seems to be the issue but I'm not sure how to find out what LUN was used in the past to select it again...

UPDATE #4

OK I tracked it down to it being 1 of 2 disks and I'm not sure which one it should be. This would really be a question about either Cluster Shared Volumes and/or Cluster Quorums. I need to know which one of these might be attached to a file server as a resource? I'm not sure if both of these just "float" from cluster node to cluster node as needed or if maybe the QUORUM drive needs to be hosted by a file server etc.. Can someone maybe tell me which one of these drives might more likely be connected as a resource to my file server?

Currently it looks as if all VMs have the CSV drive (where all the VMs are kept) as a resource so I'm guessing it's not the CSV drive that I need to add back to my file server and that drive might just "float" in the cluster (for lack of a better term). Seeing as how CSV works with all nodes having a C:\ClusterStorage\Volume1 on the host nodes at the same time, my money is on the QUORUM.

Can someone maybe confirm my logic (or attack it) please?

First Question:

I have a Windows Server 2012 R2 server that hosts my license server. It is set up with two sets of licenses packs (a 5 user cal and a 10 user cal).

Currently on the first pack of 5, all 5 are used. On the second pack of 10, 2 are used. So I should have a few more seats available (per the management console).

For some reason my SQL server (also running Server 2012 R2) is giving me issues when more than two users try to log on. It's like my MSSQL server will only allow two users to log on at a time. Giving me the impression it's NOT trying to use the license server.

Everything is set up in the domain to use the license server and it looks like my other servers are using the license server with no issues.

Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Licensing\

Use the specified Remote Desktop license servers - Enabled

Set the Remote Desktop licensing mode - Enabled

Is there something on each server that should be done to utilize the license server? Or is GPO on my domain the only thing I need to do? Is there something I forgot to do on my SQL server that I might have done on my other server having no issues?

Second question:

When I have 10 users on my domain logging on to multi servers does a ONE USER CAL license allow for a bunch of logins to different servers? Or does ONE USER CAL license translate to once user/one server.

I'm trying to find an application that I can load my GPO backups from DomainOne then add some replaces to it such as Find DomainOne -> Replace with DomainTwo. Then click some type of Import button and it auto replace text and then import all my GPOs one by one.

Currently the way provided by Microsoft is horrible! The migration table does not work on 70% of the URLs found in the GPOs and you also have to import ONE GPO at a time to keep them separate! My template has 10 GPOs in it and I want my new domain to have 10 corrected GPOs as well.

Is there currently any software out there that does this?

• Workstation: Windows 7 (x64) [Install target for printer]
• Server: Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64) [Active Directory, Print Server]

I have been bashing my head on the desk trying to get this printer to be installed via group policy! For some reason, I simply can NOT get this printer deployed with GPO. I have tried setting it up to deploy via Computer Configuration->Policies->Windows Settings->Deployed Printers, as well as Computer Configuration->Preferences->Control Panel Settings->Printers and User Configuration->Preferences->Control Panel Settings->Printers. I have also tried going through my Print Server Management console to add it via user and/or computer targeting. I have tried ALL KINDS of ways and nothing is working. I followed a bunch of tutorials and watched a bunch of videos just to make sure I was not missing something but it really is a simple task (in theory)... It just will not work.

In trying to debug the issue I found that if I went to \\myserver\ and double clicked on the printer it would try to install the printer and then prompt me to install the drivers with a UAC type prompt.

I have tried everything I can think of to get that message box to stop popping up. I dug into it and found that if I was to edit a GPO called Point and Print Restrictions located at Computer Configuration->Policies->Administrative Templates->Printers and was as at User Configuration->Policies->Administrative Templates->Control Panel->Printers you could try setting the policy to Disabled or Enabled and choose Do not show warning or elevation prompt for the two Security Prompts listed at the bottom of the policy settings.

Well that was a bust too...

I did find that if I tried to manually install the printer by going to the unc and typing in my Administrator credentials it would download the drivers from the server and install the printer (as expected). If the user tried to remove the printer and was successful somehow as soon as they would log off and back on the GPO would do what I want and add the printer back. But it required me to add it manually the first time on EVERY PC.

After testing this and then removing the printer from the GPO, then logging off and on again. I could run the command printui /s /t2 to bring up a GUI that would allow me to remove the installed drivers with ease to put the PC back to it's original state (asking for Administrator credentials). Also something else I learned was the printers were stored in the registry located at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Connections. When I was trying to remove a printer and it told me I couldn't, I just went to that registry key and removed the GUID key of the printer I was trying to delete. Then just restarted the Print Spooler service and boom it was gone. This was no help getting me get to where I wanted but it was helpful in removing the printer during debugging the issue.

I read somewhere that maybe the cause is some type of windows security update that changed something. It was released because of some article showing how you could pwn an entire network if you were able to pwn a single printer. Something about when users connected to the printer and downloaded the drivers it would install injected software and run on the machine, etc...

My main goal is to be able to deploy this printer to a set of users in this OU with the GPO I'm using. But everything I try requires an Administrator to be logged on to do it (at least the first time). Does anyone have any idea why my printer will not automatically add itself via the GPO and also how do I get that dang "Do you trust this printer?" message to go away?

I have a guest VM setup in my Hyper-V environment that I'm trying to us dynamic memory with. The following settings are being used...

• Startup RAM: 8192
• Minimum RAM: 2048
• Maximum RAM: 8192
• Memory buffer: 20%
• Memory weight: Medium on the slider

I think I might have something configured wrong because as soon as I boot up the VM and go into task manager on the guest VM to look at the performance tab I see that the server has the following usage...

The funny part is that NOTHING is using that memory (below sorted with highest mem at top)...

Why does it show such a high memory usage?

UPDATE

Per an answer provided I wanted to show the resource manager too. It shows the exact same thing.

Before I start I would like to point out that I do not want to get hung up on DNS issues with this question. EVEN IF DNS issues are apparent that would have nothing to do with basic IP traffic and that's what this question is about. I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this issue before...

Preface:

I have a machine that is set up with a dynamic IP address. It works perfectly fine and has no issues at all. I simply want to set a static IP address on it so it never changes and it's always the same (for purposes such as sharing etc). The current DHCP info that is returned when setting up the machine as a dynamic IP is as follows...

IP: 10.10.63.152
Subnet Mask: 255.255.225.0
Gateway: 10.10.63.1
Primary DNS: 10.10.63.1
Secondary DNS: (none)
WINs Server: 10.10.63.1

Problem:

I take all the dynamic information and use that as my static IP info (EXACTLY the same). When I click the enter button to apply I lose all network connectivity to the internet. I can still access local network resources (such as ping 10.10.63.19, etc.) A week ago I had it set up as a static IP address using 10.10.63.80 using the same information just a different IP and it was working perfectly. Just to trouble shoot I was using the assigned DHCP IP because everything seemed to work with that (unless I set it statically). I have also tried various different settings trying to achieve success such as...

IP: 10.10.63.80
Subnet Mask: 255.255.225.0
Gateway: 10.10.63.1
Primary DNS: 10.10.63.1
Secondary DNS: (none)
WINs Server: 10.10.63.1

IP: 10.10.63.80
Subnet Mask: 255.255.225.0
Gateway: 10.10.63.1
Primary DNS: 10.10.63.1
Secondary DNS: (none)
WINs Server: (none)

IP: 10.10.63.152
Subnet Mask: 255.255.225.0
Gateway: 10.10.63.1
Primary DNS: 10.10.63.1
Secondary DNS: (none)
WINs Server: 10.10.63.1

IP: 10.10.63.152
Subnet Mask: 255.255.225.0
Gateway: 10.10.63.1
Primary DNS: 10.10.63.1
Secondary DNS: (none)
WINs Server: 10.10.63.1

IP: 10.10.63.80
Subnet Mask: 255.255.225.0
Gateway: 10.10.63.1
Primary DNS: 8.8.8.8
Secondary DNS: (none)
WINs Server: (none)

IP: 10.10.63.152
Subnet Mask: 255.255.225.0
Gateway: 10.10.63.1
Primary DNS: 8.8.8.8
Secondary DNS: (none)
WINs Server: (none)

Any ideas what might be happening?

Further Testing Results:

I have tried to ping local resources when the IP is changed to static and results were good!

ping 10.10.63.19

Pinging 10.10.63.19 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 10.10.63.19: bytes=32 time=64ms TTL=125
Reply from 10.10.63.19: bytes=32 time=64ms TTL=125
Reply from 10.10.63.19: bytes=32 time=64ms TTL=125
Reply from 10.10.63.19: bytes=32 time=63ms TTL=125

Ping statistics for 10.10.63.19:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 63ms, Maximum = 64ms, Average = 63ms

I have tried to ping an internet resource and results failed.

ping 8.8.8.8

Pinging 8.8.8.8 with 32 bytes of data:
PING: transmit failed. General failure.
PING: transmit failed. General failure.
PING: transmit failed. General failure.
PING: transmit failed. General failure.

Ping statistics for 8.8.8.8:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

I have tried to do a trace route and it failed as well.

tracert 8.8.8.8

Tracing route to google-public-dns-a.google.com [8.8.8.8]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1  Transmit error: code 1231.

Trace complete.

I have been looking all over for a way to get the start menu back in Server 2012 R2. I ran across a page that said the following...

The TH2 update (Version 1511/November 2015 Update) brings the Windows 10 Start Menu to Windows Server 2012 R2. Of course, if you use Classic Shell, you get a far superior Start Menu.

I can not find anything that is "clear" as to how to enable the start menu again. Does anyone know what this "TH2 update" is and how to get my start menu to show up on server 2012 r2?

I don't get why I have to take the extra steps to run "wpeutil initializenetwork" before my NIC card is turned on and working within the WMI Capture (WinPE) GUI. I have the drivers added to the image and I still have to press Shift+F10, then type that command to get networking running. I don't install/add any new drivers, I just enable/initialize the network card.

Currently I'm manually pushing out images to PCs but soon I plan on using an unattended answer file and automating the process. I'm sure this is going to give me issues... Is there any way to fix this so that the network card is automatically initialized?

I'm working on upgrading a server's hard drive from a standard HHD to an SSD drive. I have cloned the drive with a program called "EaseUS Todo Backup Free 8.6" (which I think does a bunch of extra steps than just cloning the partitions) and that seemed to work fine. The issues that I'm running into is my server currently is running a hardware RAID 1 array (MIRROR) and I have decided to move to a software RAID so that I can use the TRIM function with my new SSD drives.

The issue is when I set my BIOS from RAID to AHCI windows refuses to boot and ends up at a STOP screen (BSOD) with error code 0x0000007B.

I'm trying my best to resolve this issue and have been looking all over the web for answers. What I ended up finding was that my server (Intel X38ML) currently has the RAID drivers installed and NOT the IDE drivers OR the AHCI drivers that I actually need. So this BSOD is all I get when I change it from anything but RAID. Both IDE and AHCI settings in the BIOS give me this BSOD.

I have been to this site to grab the drivers I thought I needed as suggested by another site, but those did not work for me. So I tried to grab older drivers specific for my board (I guess) from this site which is also an Intel site, but those did not help either. Everytime I try to install these two drivers I get the following...

My device manager currently looks like this...

I'm looking for something like this in the end...

Any ideas? How can I load those AHCI drivers on my OS to be able to switch to AHCI in the BIOS? Or am I going about this the wrong way?

UPDATE

I thought it was worth adding to the original question... I have already completed the required registry edits to enable AHCI.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci
- Edit REG_DWORD called "Start", change value from 3 to 0.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\IastorV
- Edit REG_DWORD called "Start", change value from 3 to 0.
- Note this key did not exist on my server so I took no action.

As the question suggests, where can I find dskprobe.exe for Windows Server 2012 R2? I need dskprobe to recover a deleted partition and I can not find the application anywhere on my server and looking for it on the web seems to be a very hard task. Did they do away with it? It so, will old versions built for old OSs still work on 2012 R2?

This is how I'm trying to recover my partition that was deleted as cited on this microsoft article.

To Recover a Deleted NTFS Volume

1. Re-create the exact same volume but choose not to format it. This may be difficult if you do not remember the exact size you had created originally, especially because the Disk Management snap-in tends to round partition sizes.

2. Using Dskprobe.exe, recover the backup boot sector for the NTFS volume from the end of the volume. Because it is a dynamic volume you may need to use Dmdiag.exe to help find the backup boot sector, or search for it by using Dskprobe.exe (on the Tools menu, click Search Sectors).

3. After rewriting the NTFS boot sector, quit Dskprobe.

4. In Disk Management, click Rescan Disks on the Action menu. This should mount the volume for immediate use.

Well... I messed up. I didn't do enough research and just checked out the headlines then jump head first into the new Scale-Out File Server that Windows Server 2012 R2 brings to the table. At first an Active-Active file server sounds like the only way to go but after you use it, see the performance hit then do more research (which tells you to basically only use it for VERY large files) you might be like me and want to jump ship!

My question is simple. Currently I have a LUN/DISK dedicated to my Scale-Out File Server. The disk (which is of course currently a Cluster Shared Volume AKA CLV) is about 6TB. I want to know can I convert it back to a normal File Server...

My thought was that I would just remove the Scale-Out File Server role and then move the 6TB disk from a CSV back to an available cluster disk. Then just create a regular File Server role and reuse the 6TB disk I have waiting for me.

My concern is that a CSV or the new Scale-Out File Server might have some funky file system or something special and my data might not be there when I bring the regular File Server back online.

Anyone ever try this before?

I normally create new VMs from the Failover Cluster Manager GUI. But this time around I went a different route because I had to (due to time constraints and available resources at the time). For this one VM I had to create it on cluster node1 directly. Then when I got it up and running the cluster had the disk available for me to use so I shut down the VM, then added it as a service/role in the Failover Cluster Manager GUI.

That seemed to come over into the Failover Cluster Manager with no issues at all.

Then I tried to do a Live Migration and got the error "Could not find Ethernet switch 'Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet #3 - Virtual Switch'."

A few things to note...

• The NICs are named the same exact thing on BOTH nodes.
• The NICs do seem to have the "device names" mixed up.
  • Node1 NIC's Name:NIC1
  • Node1 NIC's Device Name:'Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet #3 - Virtual Switch'.
  • Node2 NIC's Name:NIC1
  • Node2 NIC's Device Name:'Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet #2 - Virtual Switch'.
• I have all NICs enable and in use except for ONE, and that's NIC1.
• I could not find "Refresh the Configuration of a Virtual Machine" on Server 2012 R2 (like there was in Server 2008 R2).
• I tried refreshing the VM configuration by using 'Update-ClusterVirtualMachineConfiguration -Name "Virtual Machine Configuration A PAPTR"' on both nodes (with no errors, just shows the VM status).
• I created a new VM via the Failover Cluster Manager GUI and it live migrates with no issues at all.

Any suggestions?

I currently have a Windows Server 2008R2 box with a single physical NIC. For what I want to do I need two network adaptors in the box. To accomplish this, I added a legacy hardware device "Network Adaptor" and used the Microsoft Loopback Adaptor as the driver.

Now I have two network adaptors:

1. NIC1 - Physical NIC 10.71.1.3 (network: 10.71.1.0/24)
2. NIC2 - Virtual (Loopback) NIC 10.71.2.3 (network: 10.71.2.0/24)

My goal is to get NIC2 to piggyback off of NIC1 and be able to ping another server (10.71.2.2) on the same switch (there is only one switch involved in this scenario).

Currently I can ping a server (10.71.1.5) with no issues because it's using the physical NIC as its gateway. But I can't ping 10.71.2.2. I'm guessing because the driver I used (loopback) is creating an isolated network on NIC2.

Please Note: Normally one would just add a secondary IP to NIC1 (the physical NIC). If I did I could ping 10.71.2.2 with no issues (I have tried and it works). But in this case I need two network adaptors and not just a single one to make what I'm trying to do work.

Ideas?

Updated: 4/28/2015

RELEVANT INFORMATION

I have a windows cluster with 3 nodes in it...

• Node1
• Node2
• Node3

I have 4 NICs on each node...

• NIC1_Host
• NIC2_Virtuals
• NIC3_Cluster_HB
• NIC4_Live_Migration

This is the config for Node2's NICs...

• NIC1_Host
  1. IP: 10.71.1.21 - Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.128 - Gateway: 10.71.1.1
  2. IP: 10.71.1.213 - Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.240 - Gateway: N/A
• NIC2_Virtuals
  1. N/A
• NIC3_Cluster_HB
  1. IP: 10.71.1.130 - Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.248 - Gateway: N/A
• NIC4_Live_Migration
  1. IP: 10.71.1.138 - Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.248 - Gateway: N/A

So at this point in my Windows cluster I can see three networks...

• ClusterHB (10.71.1.130) [Network: 10.71.1.128/29]
• LAN (10.71.1.21, 10.71.1.213) [Network: 10.71.1.0/25]
• LiveMigration (10.71.1.138) [Network: 10.71.1.136/29]

Now that all of that is configured I move into my clustered app service that I created called "MyAppService". Under the general tab I have the list of IP addresses. There are a few things to note here...

1. I can only have one IP address added to this list.
2. When I edit or add an IP I can only choose the network 10.71.1.0/25 which is good and bad.

THE QUESTION

So my question is, how can I incorporate my new network in the mix? From what I understand these cluster networks are auto added. But for some reason it's only adding 1 cluster network per network card and in my case I need it to add 2 for the NIC1_Host NIC. Why is windows clustering not adding a network for the 10.71.1.208/28 network? In the end I expect the following to be shown under the "Networks" section of the cluster...

• ClusterHB (10.71.1.130) [Network: 10.71.1.128/29]
• LAN (10.71.1.21) [Network: 10.71.1.0/25]
• iSCSI (10.71.1.213) [Network: 10.71.1.208/28]
• LiveMigration (10.71.1.138) [Network: 10.71.1.136/29]

I have a Cisco ASA 5505 that uses around 5 NICS for different networks. Currently I'm using my ASA to route traffic as it's the only Cisco device I have capable of the small amount of routing required by my network.

Keeping things separate I use 5 NICS for different networks such as outside, corp, printers, workstations, servers, and public. Each have a different subnet that I keep separate to control all the ACLs via the ASA firewall. Everything (such as DHCP with a SuperScope) works great with the exception of the WDS Server.

My question is, currently I have a new PC plugged into the workstations NIC LAN that is looking for my WDS Server which is located on the servers LAN. How can I get the requests from all the different NICs to flow to the servers NIC LAN?

Steps to recreate the issue... (Windows 2008 Server - DC, and Windows 7 as the client box)

1) Create a new user in the domain.
   Example: user1
2) Set the user's "Remote Desktop Services User Profile" to a network path.
   Example: \\myserver\profiles\bullpin
3) Logon with user1 to the remote desktop (SERVER_A), then create a new shortcut to a web page.
   Example: http://google.com -> Named: Google
4) Logout with user1.
5) Create a new user in the domain.
   Example: user2
6) Set the user's "Remote Desktop Services User Profile" to the same network path.
   Example: \\myserver\profiles\bulpin
7) Logon with user2 to the remote desktop (SERVER_A).  YOU SHOULD GET AN ERROR!
   ERROR: "The Group Policy Client service failed the logon.  Access is denied"

Update:

My answer below fixed the issue and everything seemed to work fine. Now I'm looking to find out how can I avoid this in the first place? Without having to change permissions while the error is still up (in the 30 seconds is lasts). Can I change the key's permissions before the user tries to log on?

Note: If I have to load the profile in the hive under HKEY_USERS manually please explain how.

Thanks!

Goals:

- Have two Dell switches trunked together with 1 cat5 cable.
- Have VLANs of the same number/name passing traffic from switch to switch.
- Not allowing any traffic from one VLAN to pass to a different VLAN.

Switches Used:

- Dell PowerConnect 2824 (24 port gigabit, level 2) [CORE SWITCH]
- Dell PowerConnect 2716 (16 port gigabit, level 2)

VLANs:

- VLAN1 (default by dell)
  Dell2824 Ports 1, Dell2716 Ports 1

- VLAN110 (workstations)
  Dell2824 Ports 7-16, Dell2716 Ports 2-14

- VLAN111 (printers)
  Dell2824 Ports 2-6

- VLAN112 (servers)
  Dell2824 Ports 18-22

Below is some snapshots of my current config and I want to know if I need to change anything to get it working right. As it stands it will not work as intended.

... After going through a bunch of work trying to prep images to show to you all I realized when trying to post them I need 10 rep to post images... :/ So sorry for a not so graphical representation of my settings below... I did create an album here though... vlan settings